Dorothy Mayson

TV reporter and columnist Dorothy Mayson can be relied upon to provide fair and balanced coverage of that inhuman job-stealer, Machine Man. Unsurprisingly, she's buddy-buddy with Senator Miles Brickman.

Fiction

After an occasion when Machine Man saved a school bus from plunging into the ocean and returned to help fix the bridge, Peter Spaulding encouraged him to play up the good deed for the assembled press, readily admitting that it was a response to Senator Brickman's latest round of attacks on the living robot. In particular, Peter tried to dissuade the idea that someone as powerful as Machine Man would even need a job, but Mrs Mayson argued that Machine Man's power was what made him a threat – at that moment, he was depriving a derrick operator a job by lifting the girder back into place. With a hundred Machine Men, there'd be thousands fewer human employees in construction. She stormed away, ignoring Peter's protestations.

That evening, Mrs Mayson reported from the scene of a Wall Street break-in that had happened just an hour prior. One of the security guards that had been present for the break-in insisted that the perpetrator had been Machine Man. Later that evening, Mrs Mayson was at Miles Brickman's office as the senator expressed his joy at the latest news report about Machine Man's alleged crime spree.

Later still that evening, Mrs Mayson conducted an interview with Dean, the warden of the city prison where Peter was being held for refusing to give Machine Man's whereabouts to the police. Leaving the building, Mrs Mayson spotted Machine Man himself at Peter's cell window, and she snapped a photo under the belief he was breaking in. The next day, the Daily Bugle printed the photo with the story "MACHINE MAN INVADES CITY PRISON: TV Reporter Takes Startling Photography Evidence". The Man Who Could Walk Through Walls

Notes

Dorothy Mayson on Marvel Database, an external wiki

• It's never mentioned in which publication Mrs Mayson's column appears. It's probably not the Daily Bugle, given the unfamiliar way the headline refers to her as "TV reporter".